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Private equity and infrastructure investment specialist Omnes Capital has made a number of key promotions and appointments with Eric Rey appointed as managing partner, responsible for the firm’s mid-cap business.
Rey also joins Omnes Capital’s executive committee.
In addition, Pierre-Axel Botuha and Etienne Chemel have joined the mid-cap team as principals.
The mid-cap team invests in SMEs offering strong growth potential via Omnes Croissance 4. This fourth-generation fund has just closed at EUR210 million (above its initial target size of EUR180 million) and has four investments in portfolio: Bimedia, Capcom, Cogepart and Dispam.
Laurent Espic, partner, has
- 03/02/2017
New Silkroutes Group (NSG) is to acquire an 80 per cent stake in New York-based CG Capital Markets Holdings (CGCMH) and all its subsidiaries, including FINRA-registered broker-dealer CG Capital Markets (CGCM), for USD14.4 million, in a major push to expand its own investment business and diversify its business lines.
Founded in 2015, CGCM specialises in fixed-income market making and provides capital raising and advisory services to companies and projects in sectors including technology, life sciences, natural resources, real estate and energy.
In addition to New York, CGCM maintains trading operations in New Jersey and Florida. It also has representative
- 03/02/2017
Alternative asset manager FS Investments has appointed Chris Condelles as head of capital markets and investor relations (IR).
Condelles will serve as an executive vice president based in the firm’s Philadelphia headquarters.
In his new role, Condelles will help expand the reach of the firm’s growing suite of investment solutions by overseeing relationships with key stakeholders including institutional investors, banks, rating agencies and the analyst community.
“Chris brings substantial experience building profitable credit and financing solutions businesses to our platform at FS Investments,” says Michael C Forman (pictured), chairman and CEO of FS Investments. “At a time when
- 03/02/2017
Scania is targeting investment in high-growth companies connected to the transport and automotive industries with its new venture capital fund, Scania Growth Capital.
Henrik Henriksson, Scania's president and CEO, says: "Through Scania Growth Capital, Scania is looking to invest in promising, innovative and entrepreneurial companies. Gaining insight and early access to business models, technology and ideas that can change the environment in which we are active will further strengthen us in the future."
Scania Growth Capital will be exclusively operated and advised by an external investment team with extensive experience from venture and growth capital business as well as
- 03/02/2017
- 03/02/2017
Private equity firm Oval Partners has made an investment in Cannon IV, an independent managed print services (MPS) provider in the mid-west US.
Cannon IV integrates products and systems to improve document workflow and increase operating efficiencies and offers managed print services programmes nationally to all end-user markets – commercial and public sectors.
The company is headquartered in Indianapolis with direct sales in Indiana, Ohio and Texas.
FlexPrint and Oval Partners joined forces to accelerate the company’s national growth strategy by creating a model acquisition platform based on FlexPrint’s business model for national managed print services. With the recent
- 03/02/2017
- 03/02/2017
Mourant Ozannes Hong Kong has appointed finance and restructuring specialist Claire Fulton to the global partnership, bringing the offshore law firm's total number of partners to 59.
Fulton joined Mourant Ozannes from Hogan Lovells in 2014 and is based in the firm's Hong Kong office.
She specialises in advising clients on realising value in distressed situations, including security enforcements, special situations, debt restructurings and voluntary liquidations.
She is regularly approached to advise on offshore statutory merger regimes and has significant experience advising clients on a broad range of banking and finance transactions including cross-border leveraged finance buy-outs, public
- 03/02/2017
- 03/02/2017
FM:Systems, a provider of Integrated workplace management systems (IWMS) and computer-aided facility management (CAFM) software, has secured a substantial investment from tech-focused private equity firm Accel-KKR.
The investment will provide capital and resources to accelerate product innovation, growth in new and existing markets and service offerings to support an expanding international client base and rapidly evolving market.
FM:Systems' over 300 blue-chip customer base spans six continents and a range of industries, including healthcare, higher education, technology, manufacturing, retail, banking and the public sector.
"FM:Systems has experienced rapid growth over the past few years and was looking for an
- 03/02/2017
- 03/02/2017
Silverfleet Capital has appointed Andrew Harrison as head of investor relations, based in the firm’s London office.
Harrison joins Silverfleet from Credit Suisse where he spent over 12 years, latterly as a member of the firm’s Private Fund Group (PFG).
During his time in the PFG, Harrison raised capital for a number of buyout, energy, credit and infrastructure investment strategies including Silverfleet’s second independent fund.
Most recently, Harrison was responsible for the PFG’s origination and due diligence activities across Europe and Asia.
Neil MacDougall, managing partner at Silverfleet Capital, says: “We are very pleased that Andrew has decided to
- 03/02/2017
The South African M&A market will grow by 66 per cent in the next two years, according to the Global Transactions Forecast issued by global law firm Baker McKenzie in association with Oxford Economics.
The report shows that South African M&A slowed in 2016 amid economic and political uncertainty. While 211 M&A deals were finalised in South Africa in 2015, this dropped to 115 deals in 2016.
The report predicts that around 190 M&A deals will be concluded in 2017, rising to 274 in 2018; and growing to 295 finalised deals by 2019.
South Africa is also included
- 03/02/2017
SK Capital Partners, a private investment firm with a focus on the specialty materials, chemicals, and pharmaceutical sectors, has acquired Niacet Corporation, a producer of specialty ingredients for food, feed and pharmaceutical applications and a global leader in propionates and acetates.
Headquartered in Niagara Falls, New York, Niacet currently serves more than 300 customers in 57 countries and employs approximately 190 people across its headquarters and two production facilities.
SK Capital is recapitalising Niacet in partnership with Kelly Brannen, who will continue to serve as CEO and retain a significant stake in the company. The Brannen family purchased Niacet
- 02/02/2017
- 02/02/2017
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